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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Perry in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2797S, -97.5217WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.61 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20007cv9. Event ids that are associated: us20007cv9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 23:40:38 / October 8, 2016 @ 11:40 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5217° West, 36.2797° North, depth 1.61 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:40:38 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5217° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km W of Perry, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-08 23:40:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 23:51:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.203 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007cv9 Id of event.
Event Code 20007cv9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007cv9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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